I was trying to get to the roots of information pertaining to the evolution of C++ and found an interview link on youtube. It's with Bjarne Stroustrup, founder/inventor of C++, and Herb Sutter, secretary of the ISO/ANSI C++ standards committee.
In it, Stroustrup defined C++ as a language,
- Which is close to the hardware,
- Which can deal very effectively with resources, and
- Which has the abstraction mechanism that can serve the demands of really large applications,
He also somewhat criticized that if there is something good happening about C++, one won't hear a lot about it. This is partly because a number of people working on other languages are paid to disseminate improvement bullets about their languages; on the other hand, there is no substantial marketing budget to popularize or create hype around C++.
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